Presentation
Life-cycle cost analysis considerations for accelerated bridge construction
3rd International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2012
(2012)
Abstract
Life-cycle cost analyses are important for developing technically based and economically justified strategies. One the one hand types of bridges to be invested in future can be identified on the other hand the optimal point of time for renewal needs to be fixed. For identifying the point of time of renewal the right measure for existing objects, either executing further maintenance actions or already renewing the object must be chosen. The main parameters for these models are the utilization time, investment cost, maintenance cost and the rate of interest. Furthermore speed restrictions as cost relevant consequences for the train operators should be taken into account.
Thus life-cycle cost models get more and more importance for the owner of the objects. Within this Mini-Symposium different models and strategies based on these models will be discussed. Furthermore the main parameters utilization time and possible maintenance work will be focused.
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 3, 2012
Location
Vienna, Austria
Comments
MS 2-1: Life-Cycle Cost Analyses
Citation Information
U. Attanayake, A. W. Mohammed, Y. Hu, O. Abudayyeh, et al.. "Life-cycle cost analysis considerations for accelerated bridge construction" 3rd International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2012 (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/upul-attanayake/28/